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After going for a good swim this morning and doing a few extra lengths, I have no energy left to think up a witty/clever/apt title for todays post so it will just have to remain untitled :)
I signed up the other day over with the Scrapbook Store for the Midsummer MegaScrap with Celine Navarro. Sounds like it will be a good day and I'm looking forward to learning some new techniques. Celine was a guest designer with StudioCalico a few months after they started up. Oisin is counting down the days to his birthday party now and I just hope he hasn't got orders in with his friends for presents!
I have a bit of a love/hate thing going on with the lo below. Its one I did sometime last year and I love lots of the individual elements like the papers, the colours, the felt rocket, the title and the memory but it's a bit all over the place. Oh well :)

round 6

As always, it's hard to believe how fast time is whizzing by! Round 6 is now up on the Creativity Life blog and there are only 6 apprentices left! These last few months have gone by so quickly.
I would just like to say a big thank you to anyone who voted for me last month ... thank you :). Challenge 6 was all about stamping so if you would like to have a look (and maybe even vote if you like what I did :), just click here. I was a bit worried when I saw the papers at first as the colours were so muted but I have to say I was very happy with the finished pages and cards ... in fact I think the lo on the blog now might be one of my favourites!
I'll leave you with a lo I mentioned in my last post, done using the scrummy gorgeousness that is BG Marrakech. I really love this photo of Oisin, his eyes look so big and blue. He was going through a phase at the time of saying 'oooooh mamma' and 'oooooooh dada' and was only about 16 months old. He'll be 6 in 17 days ....aaaahhhh!!

all going swimmingly!

Nothing much to report today! I only got two los done last week ... but I did get three swims in! I broke open the BG Marrakech goodies I've been hoarding for a while after seeing a lovely card by Julie and I have to say I just adore those colours. But the lo below (which I'm not sure if I like or not) was done with some Pink Paislee.

Sneaks

Just wanted to post a few sneaks for the next round of Scrapbook Apprentice. The challenge this time was creative stamping and we got some lovely new papers by Jesse Edwards (which aren't in the shops yet!) and some pretty flowery swirly stamps. The colours were much more muted than the bright bold colours we worked with for the last round and looked very pretty and elegant. I had lots of fun rediscovering embossing powder ... which is like sand: it gets everywhere! And I tried chalks for the first time which I really liked. Note to self: stamp more and make more use of the gazillion stamps I own!

suuny Saturday

It was a beautiful day here today and I think the sunshine really lifts everyones mood! I finished my los and cards for the next round of scrapbook apprentice earlier in the week (I'll post a few sneak peeks soon :) but didn't seem to get much else done since then, except these ...


I bought the blank letters in Wal Mart when we were in Florida last year and have been meaning to cover them ever since. So I finally dug them out and covered them with some gorgeous BG Phoebe papers that I have been saving for ages and put them over the doors in our sun room, which is where I do my scrapping.

Easter weekend...

We had a lovely Easter weekend ... Declan was off work on Friday and got to do lots of bits and pieces around the garden. The glasshouse is full and I'm looking forward to a flower filled summer! We went to the Botanic gardens after church yesterday and got some nice pictures of the beautiful tulips ... the colours were just amazing. I do feel like I need a bit of a detox now though after too much Easter egg. I felt like I had chocolate running through my veins when I was going to bed last night! (Not that I ate that much ... just more than normal :) So I went for a swim this morning to try and undo some of the damage and feel a lot better now.
I did this lo a couple of weeks ago, about a visit to Dublin Zoo last summer. I love this StudioCalico paper ... yum!

Tuesday musings

Well the Easter hols are in full swing and it's so nice not to have to get up early ... and spend some 'quality time' with Oisin. My little monkey will be 6 next month!!!! I really can't believe it.
I did the lo below a few weeks ago about one of the funny things Oisin keeps saying at the moment; Are you thinking what I'm thinking? (Sorry the photo's not great).
Now to try and decide what we'll do today .....

Round 5

Firstly, I would just like to say thank you to everyone who voted for me in the last round of the Scrapbook Apprentice competition . I'm very happy to have made it through as there was a huge number of votes this time and it was very close! Voting has now started for round 5 so if you would like to take a look just click here. The challenge this time was ribbons and I have to say that everyones work looks lovely ... who knew you could do so much with ribbon!!

It's a fine line ...

Had a conversation the other day with Oisin that went something like this:
me: I hope Ryan (Oisins friend from school) is better from the chicken pox. I had them when I was small and still have a few marks from them on my forehead!
Oisin: Oh yeah, I think I see them. Is it all those lines (said as he runs his finger across his forehead ... repeatedly! )
Needless to say, I wasn't too impressed and had to go check in the mirror to see just how bad those lines on my forehead were:)
I had been wanting to scrap this photo for a while and realised last week that I had the perfect papers in a StudioCalico kit from a few months ago. Of course this was before Oisin was old enough to notice Mammy's wrinkles!

Tomorrow is the last day to vote for this months scrapbook apprentice (and it's really close!) so if you haven't voted yet, head on over to the Creativity Life blog.

monday ... again!!

Is it just me or does time speed up ridiculously the older you get? The weeks seem to be flying by at the moment. Hope you had a lovely mothers day ... Oisin made me three lovely mothers day cards, and a poster so I was a very lucky mammy :) Of course I forgot to take a photo of the card that I made for my own mam ... must see if I can sneak a pic next time I'm visiting. I actually managed to get two los done on Saturday (almost unheard of for me). It's the first time in about a month I got to do some pages just for myself, although I have done quite a few cards over the last week or two. I love the photo in this one below.



And you still have time to get you name in for the Creativity Life blog giveaway if you would like to win some scrapping goodies.